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UPDATED: Banner Plane Crashes, Pilot OK

 

By Herald Staff

GREEN CREEK — A banner-towing airplane from Paramount Air Service crashed at 4:27 p.m. Thur., July 26. The pilot, Jacob Lewis, was uninjured, but was stuck in a tree about 40 feet off the ground on a branch, according to police.
The plane crashed into a grove of trees and came to rest 50 – 70 feet off the ground, said Middle Township Police Capt. John Edwards. Lewis was able to climb from the cockpit of the plane and make his way partially down the tree where he was able to be rescued.
“The plane was so far up in the tree, with the heavy foliage, they could hardly see it,” said Edwards.
The cause of the accident remains unknown. The aircraft remains in the trees.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were called to the site to conduct an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Green Creek Fire Department and Middle Township Emergency Medical Services and Middle Township Police responded to the call as did AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center paramedics, as a precaution.
Paramount’s airfield is located on the west side of Route 47 between the highway and Delaware Bay. It is there that advertising banners are created and then picked up by planes.
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